Ibaraki Prefecture
The Ibaraki prefecture (Japanese茨城 県, Ibaraki-ken ) is a prefecture of Japan and is located in the Kantō region on the island of Honshu in Japan. Seat of the prefectural government is Mito.
Geography
The prefecture is bordered to the south by the prefectures of Chiba and Saitama, Tochigi Prefecture to the west and to the north by the Fukushima Prefecture. Ibaraki is a industrialized coastal strip with extensive port facilities and the alleged largest oil refinery in the world, with Japan's Nuclear Energy Research Institute and nuclear power plants in the village of Tokai.
History
Ibaraki was known in traditional Japan for its mines and its warlike inhabitants.
Policy
- LDP: 44
- DPJ: 5
- Jimin Kensei Club (ex -LDP ): 5
- Kōmeitō: 4
- JCP: 1
- Non-attached Members: 3
Governor of Ibaraki is nationally since 1993, the Independent Masaru Hashimoto, currently the longest reigning governor. He was originally selected with the support of Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) and other parties in 2001 and 2005 confirmed as Allparteienkandidat with only a CPY - opposing candidates in office 2009 but re-elected without the formal support of parties against a LDP candidates and in the gubernatorial election in September 2013, re-elected to only one, CPY -supported candidates for the sixth time.
The prefecture of Ibaraki Parliament is next to Tokyo and Okinawa is one of three in Japan, who are not elected in uniform regional elections. From the last election on 12 December 2010, the LDP went with slight losses, but at 39 % of the vote with an absolute majority of 33 of the 65 seats out. The Democratic Party won six seats (17 % of the vote ), the Kōmeitō four, one the Minna no Tō two and the JCP. The remaining 19 deputies elected were independents.
In the national parliament Ibaraki has seven directly elected deputies in Shūgiin and four in Sangiin. Of the seven constituencies in Ibarakis Shūgiin won in the 2012 election five Liberal Democrats, one went to the Democratic Party, the seventh held by the non-party, former LDP MPs Kishiro Nakamura. In Sangiin represented by the 2007 and 2010 elections, two Democrats and two Liberal Democrats Prefecture.
The fiscal situation of the prefecture is relatively good. With a " financial strength index " ( zaiseiryoku Shisu ) of over 0.5 Ibaraki has been one of the first of four groups of prefectures that distinguishes the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The budget amounted in fiscal 2009 to 1.08 trillion yen, of which less than ten percent were borne by the central government and financed about 14 percent of bonds.
Administrative divisions
( Independent ) cities (市shi )
- Tokurei -shi ( " special cities " ) Mito, the seat of the prefectural government
- Tsukuba
- Bandō
- Chikusei
- Hitachi
- Hitachinaka
- Hitachiomiya
- Hitachiota
- Hokota
- Inashiki
- Ishioka
- Itako
- Joso
- Kamisu
- Kashima
- Kasumigaura
- Iwaki
- Koga
- Moriya
- Naka
- Namegata
- Omitama
- Ryugasaki
- Sakuragawa
- Shimotsuma
- Takahagi
- Toride
- Tsuchiura
- Tsukubamirai
- Ushiku
- Yūki
Counties (郡, gun)
List of districts of Ibaraki Prefecture, as well as their towns (町, machi ) and villages (村, mura ).
- Higashiibaraki Ibaraki
- Oarai
- Shirosato
- Yank
- Kawachi
- Miho
- Daigo
- Tōkai
- Sashima Goka
- Sakai
- Yachiyo